[Dxspider-support] DXspider on a Debian system

[Bob Nielsen]

To answer my own question (in case anyone else is considering this):

It looks like all the needed CPAN modules are available as Debian
packages (it took a bit of searching before I figured out the name
pattern--there are over 8000 packages currently in woody), however the
version of libcurses-perl is 1.05, while the installation instructions
specify Curses-1.06.  I used dh-make-perl with the --build option to
download the module source and create a libcurses-perl_1.06-1_i386.deb
package with a single command.

Bob

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:21:08PM -0800, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Is there anyone on the list using spider on a Debian system?  I have
> been looking into installing it on my system running the testing
> "woody" distribution (with kernel 2.2.20) and noticed that the
> perl-base package includes data dumper, so I assume the data-dumper
> module is not required.  Is this correct?  Are any other required
> modules already included in Debian packages?
> 
> Also, I was wondering about the possibility of using dh-make-perl to
> make Debian packages of the necessary CPAN modules.
> 
> Are there any issues with using perl 5.6?
> 
> Any thoughts?